Chapter 2716 The First Test
Seeing Angel's "pretending to be confused", the wise master was too lazy to say anything and waved his hand: "Forget it, forget it, I don't care what secrets you want to hide. Anyway, the contract has been signed successfully. As long as you can abide by the contract, nothing else matters."
The "generous" statement of the wise master made Angel even more confused.
Let alone Angel, other people didn't understand what the wise master was saying.
Angel's true face is shameful? Covered tightly?
Is the wise master talking about the true face in the literal sense, or is it a metaphor, and the true face actually refers to the true face of personality? The latter, perhaps they can understand. But the former, it is really confusing.
They have all seen Angel's true face, and it is definitely wrong to say that it is shameful. As for whether Angel hid his true face? They are not blind. Apprentices cannot see the Transfiguration, but formal wizards can still see it. Moreover, the Black Earl is still here. It is easy to tell whether Angel shows his true face or a fake one.
Everyone has doubts in their hearts, but they cannot speak for Angel, so they all remain silent.
And Angel, the little bubbles of doubt in his heart are rising one after another. He really wants to ask the specific reason, but he is worried whether the picture seen by the wise master is related to that person.
When Angel was struggling to ask whether to ask, the wise master had already come to the next question: "The contract has been concluded. You can choose to let me fulfill it now, or at any other time."
The contract related to the wise master is naturally the reward feedback after the contract is established. The so-called fulfillment of the contract by the wise master is to tell some things about the experiment that year and the truth about the snake wrapped around the cone.
Angel thought for a moment and said, "Let's talk about it after we get to the residence of the wise master."
The wise master was about to reply, but suddenly paused for a second or two, and then a smile spread across his lips: "Even if you let me tell you now, it may be too late."
Angel: "Ah?"
The wise master turned his head, his eyes accurately passed through the extremely luxurious nightmare, and looked in the direction of the ladder of the suspended prison.
"Because your first test is coming."
The first test? When everyone heard this, their expressions immediately became serious. Because this test is completely different from the extra points test given by the wise master before.
Although the test given by the wise master at that time was forced, it did not ask them to "die".
It was purely in the name of the test to explore their intelligence.
And the test that the wise master said this time was undoubtedly an interception launched by "her" against them. If the interception fails, it will be a kill.
So, they must take it seriously.
"I wonder what this so-called test is?" asked the black earl.
Because they had already guessed that Younu's test would not be here, but at the fork in the road before arriving at the Hall of the Wise. Therefore, this test must have nothing to do with Younu.
What they hoped most was that Younu's three children would test them. Because the Wise Lord could control their behavior and even let them help Angel to detect the limitations of Younu's movement in the magic array.
But if it wasn't Dabao and the others, then this test would have to be handled with caution.
The Wise Lord didn't answer immediately, but closed his eyes, as if sensing something.
After waiting for about a minute, the Wise Lord opened his eyes and came back to his senses. However, before the Wise Lord spoke, everyone heard a cold snort in their ears.
"Descendants of Noah, if you leave now, you can still be safe. But if you insist on going, you will see what is... despair."
This was a female voice, speaking threatening words with an indifferent tone.
Everyone looked at each other and finally looked at Angel. Because they were now in Angel's extremely luxurious nightmare, it was difficult to detect the source of the female voice, so they could only hope for Angel.
Angel put his right index finger to his lips and made a "hush" gesture.
Soon, the female voice echoed again, but this time it was not directed at the "outsider".
"Wise Lord, you should know that arrogance is the original sin."
The wise Lord smiled lightly and said, "I am not arrogant, nor a betrayer. You should see it more clearly than me."
"Humph, give up your unwarranted desire to spy, the Qingkong Poetry Room does not have what you want."
The wise Lord did not say anything this time.
And the female voice did not speak again, the lingering sound gradually became quiet, and finally turned into waves of... ripples.
Literally ripples.
"Her voice came from the surface of the fountain outside." Angle paused: "Now that the ripples have disappeared, she should have left."
"Water surface?" Dox recalled the dark and smelly water in the fountain outside, frowning: "She really doesn't dislike her position at all."
"Even if it is sewage, the water surface can be called a mirror... Is it her?" While speaking, the Black Earl turned his head and looked at the Wise Lord.
The Wise Lord smiled and said: "Congratulations, you got it right. But there is no reward."
"Is her sudden appearance this time a declaration of war?" Dox asked.
The Wise Lord: "You can regard it as a declaration of war, or a prelude to the trial. However, her appearance this time is more of a warning to me."
"As you heard before, she has discovered that I have a connection with you. Fortunately, she doesn't know how far we have connected yet."
After saying this, the wise master moved his eyes away from Angel, who was directly opposite him, and turned to the Black Earl and others.
"Speaking of collusion, I have signed a contract with Angel, who likes to hide his head and show his tail. We are barely on the same side." The wise master said: "What about you? Should you also make an agreement with me, under the witness of the mantra book? ?”
An ordinary agreement must be a gentleman's agreement, and compliance must be consciously followed. But since the wise master mentioned the power of power, this agreement is actually almost like a contract.
"The agreement can be discussed later, shouldn't we talk about the test now?" Doakes asked.
The wise master stretched out his index finger and shook it gently: "Your test is not that fast yet. Even if the first test is in front of you, it will not start immediately. Therefore, there is still time. We can talk about the agreement first, and then talk about the test. "
The wise master made it clear that if he did not discuss the agreement, he would not say anything else.
The Black Earl said in a deep voice: "What agreement?"
The wise master said: "Unlike Angel, you only need to write one sentence in the book of truth: I will not spread the word about what happened in Naraku City in any way, including explicit or implicit."
This sentence sounds very similar to the third clause in Angel's previous contract. However, it was much more relaxed than Angel's. The wise master asked Angel to "not mention anything about what happened in Naraku City." However, the requirement for the Black Earl and others was to "not spread the word about what happened in Naraku City".
One is mentioned and the other is rumored. It's not even allowed to mention it, but Gaiden, at least in certain circles, can still talk about it freely.
Moreover, there is more room for ambiguity in the definition of side stories. The Black Earl told other people in the clan about what happened here, and asked the clan members to sign a contract to prohibit the spread. This can actually be regarded as internal digestion rather than external rumors.
It can be seen from this wording that the wise master is more afraid of the barbaric caves, but there is not much restriction on the descendants of Noah and wandering wizards.
It's normal if you think about it carefully. The Savage Cave was a giant ten thousand years ago. Although it has declined now, this is not the fault of the Savage Cave. It is the entire southern wizarding world that is in a period of decline.
No matter how weak it is, the energy of the Savage Cave is still enough to crush Naraku City.
The wise ruler is worried that the Savage Cave will set its sights on Naruk City. For Naruk City, this will be a disaster that is enough to destroy it. Therefore, when facing Angel, the conditions he gave were obviously harsh, because Savage Cave was an "outsider".
The descendants of Noah are still huge even now, and are the top beings in the wizard family. However, after all, the Noah family also comes from Naraku City. The legacy they are going to is also established by Naraku's ancestors. They follow strict rules. In a sense, they are not considered “outsiders”. Of course, not one of our own.
The wise master does not demand that the descendants of Noah can stand on the side of Naraku City, with the goal of revitalizing Naraku. But as non-outsiders, they at least cannot stand opposite Naraku City.
This is also the reason why he proposed an agreement. Although the conditions were relaxed, they were not as loose as imagined.
As for Doakes, Kael... wandering wizards, there is no need to care.
After the wise master finished speaking, he continued: "You only need to write this agreement in the mantra book. When I tell you about the situation in the legacy land, I can use the mantra book as a guide throughout the process."
Although the wise master did not give a direct reward like Angel, the feedback he proposed was also quite useful.
Taking the mantra book as a guide means that the wise master will not be able to lie when talking about the situation in the land left behind.
Although you can also use ambiguous words to make it impossible to tell whether the truth book is true or false, but if you can clearly express it clearly, but use ambiguous expressions, everyone will immediately notice that something is wrong.
And if there is no mantra book as a guide, it would be a bit difficult to know whether what the wise master said is true or false. Unless someone dared to use the power of truth on the wise master throughout the whole process... at least, no one of them dared, not even the Black Earl.
Therefore, the wise master himself proposed this method of return. For them, or in other words, for descendants of Noah like Black Earl, the benefits definitely outweigh the disadvantages.
Only after knowing the true situation in the legacy area can they make better responses. If they tell false information, they will only be fooled.
Thinking of this, Earl Black did not hesitate and was the first to express it in the mantra book.
As the Black Earl set an example, Vai naturally did not dare to back down and immediately followed suit.
As for Doakes and Kael, there is actually no need to sign it, because it is a good thing for the descendants of Noah and is not necessary for them.
Even though they understood this truth, Doakes and Kael still did not hesitate and expressed it in the mantra book.
In less than half a minute, there were four more identical statements in the mantra book.
It is worth mentioning that when everyone made this agreement, a small accident occurred.
The surprise came from Kael.
The words in the mantra book are actually written with the energy of everyone. When energy is just imprinted on the mantra book, the operating rules of the mantra book will reveal the appearance of the energy source.
This is also to avoid cheating situations. For example, if someone secretly uses the energy of his elemental partner to imprint it on a mantra book, the mantra book will show the appearance of the elemental creature instead of that person. This reminds others that this person is cheating.
This kind of operation rules is very meaningful, and after so many years of precipitation, the perfection of the rules is also quite high. There are some very detailed rules to find those cheaters.
For example, the energy must come from oneself, which is based on the pheromone identification of the Book of Truth. In addition, the energy must not come from people outside the scope of the Book of Truth, which is to prevent twins from using each other's energy to cheat... There are many such details, making cheating basically impossible.
But there are always people who can't help but want to find loopholes.
And they can find loopholes.
It's just that these methods of finding loopholes basically require a certain amount of time to prepare. Therefore, the wise master is not worried about cheating at all.
But what he doesn't know is... Angel, who signed the most severe contract with him, actually cheated.
However, Angel himself doesn't know whether this is considered cheating, because the contract is indeed in his thinking space. However, the appearance of the energy is the one in the nightmare world.
If the cheating is successful, Angel will be less bound. But if the cheating is not successful, Angel doesn't care, and the contract itself is not that tough.
This time, Kael's unexpected appearance was the energy manifestation.
Unlike the "Shava" with long golden hair that Angel showed before, Kael had no problems at first after integrating the energy into the Book of Truth.
The person who appeared on the Book of Truth was indeed Kael's appearance. Moreover, it was a picture of Kael doing academic research, and the background was also Kael's home in the sandworm market.
There was no problem at this time, even Dox, who was most familiar with Kael, did not see the problem.
However, when Kael's picture gradually disappeared, the Black Earl suddenly said "Huh".
Everyone looked in the direction of the Black Earl's "nostril", and saw that there was a figure behind Kael. This was not a shadow, but a real "person", but he was covered by the dark light and his appearance could not be seen clearly.
But the dress was very similar to Kael.
This figure appeared for a moment and disappeared as the picture disappeared.
But everyone clearly saw this person.
Everyone looked at Kael with doubtful eyes, and Kael himself was also confused.
"I, I don't know, who is he?"
Kael looked at everyone for help with a trace of fear in his eyes.
Kael was just an apprentice, and it was easy to distinguish his truth from his lies. He was telling the truth at this time, he really didn't know who the black shadow was, and his fear was real.
Facing Kael's request for help, everyone was also puzzled. They first looked at the Black Earl, and after the Black Earl made it clear that he didn't know, they looked at the Wise Lord.
The Wise Lord is worthy of being a wise man, and he lightly gave two situations.
It's just that these two situations are both possible, not absolute. Which one is the specific situation, or whether there may be other situations, the Wise Lord can't tell.
The first situation is the independent differentiation of personality. This is different from ordinary schizophrenia. This kind of personality differentiation is independent and has no absolute coordination. It belongs to the rare surface personality and inner personality.
His characteristic is that Angel can use the power of the dream gate to pull the outer personality or the inner person into the dream wilderness. If it is an ordinary schizophrenia, being pulled into the dream wilderness will not be two "people", but still a schizophrenic person.
The dual personality created by Frost with the dark movement belongs to this kind of independent and differentiated personality.
However, the dual personality created by the dark movement will inevitably give birth to a worst personality, which is a collection of all negatives.
Under normal circumstances, the independent differentiation of personality may have different personalities, but it is not necessarily a bad personality.
The second situation is that there are two souls in one body.
To be precise, there is a main soul and a broken secondary soul in one body. This secondary soul is simply the residue of the soul.
Let's take a simple example.
There was a famous wizard in the wizard organization Dark Night Front of the Evernight Kingdom, nicknamed "Little Devil" Grak.
Grak once relied on his powerful strength to be lawless and wanton. But later, he fell into a big pit and broke into the sleepless city under the dome.
Under the pursuit of countless nightmare monsters, Grak finally died.
But he was not completely dead, because with the help of Sanders, Grak possessed a human boy who had just died.
From then on, Grak changed his name to "Spivey" and became a disciple of Flora. The "little devil" of the Dark Night Edge is no longer there, and there is a genius apprentice in the Savage Cave.
Spivey's situation fits the example given by the wise master.
If Spivey puts energy into the book of truth, it must be Spivey himself and a figure in the dark. And this figure is actually the soul residue of the original boy's body.
This kind of soul residue basically does not have an independent personality, but it will affect the character of the main soul to some extent.
Just like Spivey is now much more restrained than before, and his lawless personality has become restrained. This is not because he started practicing from scratch and had to hide for a while. It is more likely that the residue of the original soul is affecting his personality.
However, this effect is not so great that it will not change the essence of the main personality. Therefore, this situation can basically be left alone.
Moreover, when Spivey becomes a formal wizard again, these soul residues will be naturally removed under the baptism of the soul.
In other words, if Kael is the second case, the wise master suspects that there is also a remnant of a secondary soul in Kael's body.